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Why do you believe the maintainer is disingenuous? They are very open about their reasons to pick GPL as their license. We don’t have to like it but it’s their

Why do you believe the maintainer is disingenuous? They are very open about their reasons to pick GPL as their license. We don’t have to like it but it’s their code and their right to choose. They’re not pulling some weird kind of bait and switch, they’re upfront about wanting to sell commercial licenses to commercial enterprises - a pretty common business model. The available licenses are prominently displayed in the readme. Looks all perfectly fine to me.

mk89 4y ago
They are actually very clever about it. There is literally 0 alternative in the Rust world: this is what the "gpl competitive advantage" is about.
- tronical 4y ago
  We're not trying to be clever, TBH. There are many excellent alternatives out there in the Rust world. Our choice of Rust is primarily a technical choice, and later we found out that it's also a fantastic community to be part of. Most of us have our roots in the open source world, many (most?) of us learned coding because we were able to look at open source code, make changes to it, recompile and play with it. We're trying to give back to the open source community and at the same time earn a living by asking the people who use Slint for proprietary apps (i.e. not giving back) to support us by purchasing a license.
  - OkayPhysicist 4y ago
    Frankly, that's a fantastic use of the GPL. The idea that open source developers should bend over backwards to support the use case of people who can't be assed to give back to the open source community is ridiculous. If a company wants to make proprietary software off the back of open source developers, they can pay for a commercial license. Everyone else is free to use the GPL. All other so-called "free" licenses are just a way for corporations to co-opt the open source software community.

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Why do you believe the maintainer is disingenuous? They are very open about their reasons to pick GPL as their license. We don’t have to like it but it’s their

by Xylakant 4y ago

mk89 4y ago
They are actually very clever about it. There is literally 0 alternative in the Rust world: this is what the "gpl competitive advantage" is about.
- tronical 4y ago
  We're not trying to be clever, TBH. There are many excellent alternatives out there in the Rust world. Our choice of Rust is primarily a technical choice, and later we found out that it's also a fantastic community to be part of. Most of us have our roots in the open source world, many (most?) of us learned coding because we were able to look at open source code, make changes to it, recompile and play with it. We're trying to give back to the open source community and at the same time earn a living by asking the people who use Slint for proprietary apps (i.e. not giving back) to support us by purchasing a license.
  - OkayPhysicist 4y ago
    Frankly, that's a fantastic use of the GPL. The idea that open source developers should bend over backwards to support the use case of people who can't be assed to give back to the open source community is ridiculous. If a company wants to make proprietary software off the back of open source developers, they can pay for a commercial license. Everyone else is free to use the GPL. All other so-called "free" licenses are just a way for corporations to co-opt the open source software community.